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JOHN JONES, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

" Letters Patent No. 69,677, dated October 8,1867.

IMPROVED MACHINE FOR OOMPRESSING FEAT.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JOHN JONES, of the cit and useful Machine for Compressing Peat description of the construction and opera. iug, making a part of this specification.

The rollers A B are mounted like an ordinary pair of horizontal rollers, and are driven togetherby a pair of spur-wheels, O D. The rollers are filled with pits, so arranged that the diamond-shaped edges coming together form square blocks of the material pressed between them, or if grooved or corrugated rollers are used, the edges are brought together so as to give any required shape at the time of compressing. The furnaces E-F are so constructed that the fire Within gives its heat to the direct surface of the' rollers A B, as a portion of each roller revolves within its respective furnace. 'The peat is fed between the hot rollers, Where it is pressed, shaped, and calendered.

I. claim the application of pitted, I also claim the dire y of Baltimore, and State of Maryland, have invented a new and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact tion of the same, reference being had to the annexed perspective drawgroovecl, or corrugated rollers, for the purpose specified. ct application of heat to the pressing apparatus.

JOHN JONES. Witnesses:

JAMES A. THOMSON,

WM. H. INSLEE. 

